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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult to understand |
| Synonyms: | Byzantine, Daedalean, Gordian, abstruse, bewildering, circuitous, complicated, confused, convoluted, crabbed, cryptic, discursive, disordered, disturbing, enigmatic, entangled, excursive, hidden, impenetrable, inscrutable, interwoven, intricate, involved, jumbled, knotted, knotty, labyrinthine, mazy, meandering, mingled, mixed, muddled, obscure, paradoxical, perplexing, puzzling, rambling, recondite, round-about, sinuous, snarled, sophisticated, tangled, tortuous, undecipherable, unfathomable, winding |
| Notes: | something complex may be well-organized and logically constructed as well as subtle and intricate, while a thing that is complicated will have something irregular, perverse, asymmetrical in addition to fundamental intricacy; complex is more formal and technical (a problem in mathematics is complex) while something like personal life can be complicated |
| Antonyms: | apparent, clear, direct, discernible, easy, evident, obvious, plain |
| Main Entry: | knotty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | troublesome |
| Synonyms: | Gordian, baffling, complex, complicated, difficult, effortful, elaborate, formidable, hard, intricate, involved, labyrinthine, mazy, mystifying, nodulous, perplexing, problematical, puzzling, ramified, reticular, rough, rugged, sophisticated, sticky*, terrible, thorny, tough, tricky, uphill |
| Antonyms: | simple, uncomplicated, untroublesome |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | labyrinthine |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mazelike |
| Synonyms: | complex, convoluted, elaborate, intricate, mazy, meandering, serpentine, sinuous, tangled, tortuous, twisting, wandering, winding, zigzag |
| Antonyms: | simple, straight, straightforward |
| Main Entry: | serpentine |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | winding; sly |
| Synonyms: | anfractuous, artful, cagey, circuitous, clever, coiling, convoluted, crafty, cunning, curved, curvy, foxy, indirect, mazy, meandering, meandrous, shrewd, sinuous, slick, slinky, snakelike, snaky, subtle, supple, twisting, twisting and turning, wily |
| Main Entry: | tortuous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very twisted |
| Synonyms: | anfractuous, bent, circuitous, convoluted, crooked, curved, flexuous, indirect, involute, labyrinthine, mazy, meandering, meandrous, roundabout, serpentine, sinuous, snaky, twisting, vermiculate, winding, zigzag |
| Notes: | tortuous is 'winding, crooked, full of twists and turns' and torturous (based on 'torture') is 'painful, characterized by suffering' |
| Antonyms: | direct, straight, untwisted |
| Main Entry: | winding |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bending, turning |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, anfractuous, circuitous, convoluted, crooked, curving, devious, flexuous, gyrating, indirect, intricate, involved, labyrinthine, mazy, meandering, roundabout, serpentine, sinuous, snaky, spiraling, tortuous, twisting, wriggly, zigzag |
| Antonyms: | straight, unbent |
| Main Entry: | meandrous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | winding |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, anfractuous, circuitous, convoluted, crooked, curving, devious, flexuous, gyrating, indirect, intricate, involved, labyrinthine, mazy, meandering, roundabout, serpentine, sinuous, snaky, spiraling, tortuous, twisting, wriggly, zigzag |
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| Main Entry: | winding |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
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Adjectives: |
anfractuous, anguilliform, buckled, cincinate, circling, circuitous, circumfluent, circumforaneous, coiled, complicated, contortuplicate, convoluted, crispate, daedalian, flexous, frizzly, helical, indirect, intricate, involved, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, mazelike, mazy, pampiniform, peristaltic, perplexed, raveled, rivulose, roundabout, serpentiform, sigmoidal, sinuous, snake, spiral, spirated, torquated, tortile, tortive, tortuous, turbinate, turbinated, turning, twisted, undated, undee, undulatory, vermicular, vermiform, volute, wavy, whorled, winding, wreathy, zigzag
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